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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: From the Deserts They Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?
(a) American.
(b) French.
(c) British.
(d) Australian.

2. How is this carried out?
(a) Building very grand houses.
(b) Sending out patrols into the bush.
(c) Taking Aboriginals as servants.
(d) Picnics, fox-hunts and balls.

3. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?
(a) Killing the white men.
(b) Taking one of the cattle.
(c) Killing all of the cattle.
(d) Stealing all of the cattle.

4. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?
(a) Amity.
(b) Koolinda.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Challenger.

5. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?
(a) Spirits of the ancestors.
(b) Mighty kings.
(c) Gods.
(d) Flesh eating monsters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?

2. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

3. What does Dora show the children how to make?

4. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?

5. What punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?

(see the answer key)

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